a hodge podge of ideas
by Amelia i’ve been reading lately. a lot. audio books. regular books. books for myself. books for my phd exams. and i’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. so i have ideas churning...
Category: Belief
Remembering our Loved Ones: What would you ask?
by Alisa Most of us have had someone close to us pass away. Occasionally there’s something sensory or tangible we have to remember them by, other times we have only our memories. My grandpa passed...
Steering my own boat
By Jana outrigger, originally uploaded by chotda. Awhile ago I told a friend that my dream life would include paddling on the ocean every morning. It’s part of that fantasy-dream life that includes that...
body and blood and tears in church
by G When I stopped attending the LDS church last year I started visiting other local worship services and I found myself in the embarrassing situation of weeping in public. (Two Sundays in a...
Persecution and a Small Voice
by Alisa Easter Sunday, our Relief Society Lesson from the Joseph Smith manual on the Responding to Persecution. In graduate school, I studied religious persecution in England from the 16th to 18th centuries. It...
Idealistic, Pragmatic, and Cynical Feminists: Who Stays, Who Goes?
by Caroline After the recent feminist Mormon conference in Claremont (nicely summarized at ZD), Exponent blogger Jana reflected on the feminists who were able to stay and even thrive within the Church, verses the ones...
Gold Plated Enigma
by G [here’s what my Book of Mormon looks like on the inside] Something I struggled with when re-negotiating my faith in the church, was to find the exact location of the Book of...
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
By Heather This morning as Dave was getting the girls out the door to school, I heard a loud groan and then Georgia’s unmistakable “mmmoo” sound that she makes when she is trying to...
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